The Construction of Local Groups in Early Neolithic Scandinavia - An Interpretation of Social Boundaries without Local Horizons

Abstract

This article discusses the systemic construction of the social division of the Early Neolithic l. The division is seen as inaccurate due to a much too simplified classification of the ornamented material, something that is even more obvious when one tries to apply existing constructions on a broader Scandinavian scale. The article also presents a detailed analysis of the Oxie group and its relationship to other Early Neolithic groups; the previous view held by scholars, that this material is concentrated to eastern Denmark and central Scandinavia, is proven wrong in the article.